Thanks for trying to explain... it still seems quite mysterious and hit or miss to me. My long term goal here is to produce good content that a growing readership will actually read and benefit from.

To that end, I've been really glad for your coaching with tutorials and challenges focusing on various writing strategies.

My "rewards" have seemed to be highly dependent on the specific content and tags, as well as the random factors of whatever whales may have been swimming by and taken notice. I appreciate all of that, but it would seem to me that greater consistency in response from the audience would be more motivating for writers.

Having said all that, I guess I'll just keep "Steeming on" and observing and trying to learn. Thanks again for your instruction and support and for your witness activities. 😄😇😄